Together Again
{tT was good to hear "the NBS Orchestra" together again after what seems like a long term of dispersal. The musical forces that in’ their various times and places constitute the NBS strings, the NBS Light Orchestra, the NBS Quartet, the 2YA Concert Orchestra, and the NBS Symphony Orchestra, were gathered together under the baton of Leon de Mauny, Mr. Tyrer this time occupying the piano stool instead of the podium, for a performance of Beethoven’s fifth ("Emperor") piano concerto, It was worth it. Mr. Tyrer gave a clean and
understanding performance of the solo part, and those remarkable transformations of the second main tune of the first movement were brought off really wellthe tender versions for strings, the violent, majestic version for the full orchestra, and the melting, beautifully decorated piano versions. If there was an occasional squawk from the woodwind section, and if the opening of the last movement was a shapeless splash of notes, these things only served to remind us of what we might have been asked to listen to if a good deal of care and skill had not gone into defeating the difficulties of the performance. For it can scarcely be easy to get an orchestra that is only intermittently assembled in full force to imitate the results of full-time professional teams that have been working together for years.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 6
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227Together Again New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 296, 23 February 1945, Page 6
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